Prime Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1999, primarily focused on early-stage investments in technology and related sectors across Europe. The firm specializes in providing growth capital for companies at the seed stage to pre-IPO phase, with a particular emphasis on Series A and B funding rounds, as well as expansion stages. Its investment strategy targets the information and communication technology sector, including software, semiconductor, digital media, e-commerce, and clean technology. Based in Amsterdam, with additional offices in the United Kingdom and Noord-Brabant, Prime Ventures manages over €700 million in committed capital and prefers to invest €5 million to €15 million initially, with the potential for additional funding in subsequent rounds. The firm typically takes minority stakes and aims to hold board positions in its portfolio companies, leveraging its capital, experience, and network to guide them towards becoming global leaders. Prime Ventures focuses its investments primarily in the Benelux countries, the United Kingdom, France, Finland, Sweden, and other Nordic regions.
TerraPay, a mobile-first international payment network, has been founded with the vision to send money to any mobile. TerraPay interconnects financial services providers -- mobile wallet service providers, money transfer operators, banks and payment platforms – to create a “one network” for secure and seamless transnational movement of funds. The network facilitates a broad transaction set including interpersonal transfers, e-payments and government disbursements. TerraPay is platform agnostic and supports standard open APIs for integration with any mobile wallet provider. Through a single connection, partners gain access to a global payment network enabling rapid services up-scaling whilst minimizing Opex and Capex investments. As a fully regulated financial intermediary services network, TerraPay offers services beyond principal core transaction, routing and processing functions and assumes end-to-end responsibility for, regulatory compliance foreign exchange management and funds settlement.
Vitesse PSP Ltd. operates a money transfer platform that provides tailored payment services to customers globally. Established in 2013 and headquartered in London, the company focuses on addressing gaps in local bank collections and payouts. Its platform includes a range of services such as treasury and remittance solutions, inbound and outbound payments, due diligence, transaction monitoring, and global foreign exchange offerings. By leveraging its peer-to-peer capabilities, Vitesse aims to streamline payment management for its clients, ensuring a simple and effective user experience.
We are a team of technologists, creatives & entrepreneurs with a very strong background in new, emerging cryptoeconomy. We also worked with international clients in the past. As the technology changes rapidly and grows in an exponential rate we believe there’s a tremendous opportunity to create products that fulfill a goal of connecting the communities globally. Both financial licences were obtained by MyCointainer to solidify a commitment to creating an easy, safe and transparent environment for both users and entities.
Recharge, based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, specializes in simplifying the process of prepaid credit and top-up services. The company aims to disrupt the traditional, often slow market by providing a fast, safe, and convenient online recharge experience for customers worldwide. With a focus on accessibility, Recharge seeks to offer its services anytime and anywhere, catering to a diverse range of users. The company is dedicated to expanding its presence in the online recharge sector and is actively seeking talented professionals to support its growth and innovation in this rapidly evolving industry.
Blueground is a corporate hospitality company that specializes in leasing and managing residential properties across various locations, including Greece, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Kifisia, Greece, the company provides fully furnished and equipped apartments designed for corporate travelers, expatriates, and leisure visitors. Blueground aims to create a seamless living experience, allowing guests to move in effortlessly for short or long-term stays. With a growing portfolio of over 3,500 apartments in twelve cities, including New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, the company is focused on expanding its reach to 50 cities worldwide, ultimately increasing its offerings to more than 50,000 apartments.
Holidu GmbH is a rapidly growing travel technology company based in Munich, Germany, that specializes in vacation rentals. Founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers, Holidu operates a platform that allows users to compare vacation homes from numerous travel websites, including Airbnb and Booking.com. Utilizing proprietary image recognition technology, the platform enables efficient price comparison and user reviews, helping users find ideal accommodations while potentially saving up to 55% on their bookings. Holidu also offers a mobile application to enhance the user experience in searching and booking vacation rentals.
Orderchamp Bv operates an online B2B marketplace that connects independent retailers with a diverse range of brands, facilitating a more efficient wholesale model. Founded in 2019 and based in Amsterdam, the company aims to empower local communities by helping retailers curate unique product offerings. The platform features various categories, including home, fashion accessories, beauty, health, luggage, stationery, and products for children, allowing retailers to discover quality items and enabling brands to reach new markets. By addressing the inefficiencies in the traditional wholesale system, Orderchamp seeks to foster collaboration between creators and shop owners, supporting their mutual success in a rapidly evolving retail landscape.
As an international pioneer in the insurance industry, Qover designs, builds and distributes innovative digital insurance solutions across Europe to help fast-growing companies. Its insurance solutions are available in real-time through APIs or white labelling that can be easily and quickly integrated into its partners’ digital platforms. Qover's solutions are diverse and suitable for every type of online business. Among the sectors in which the company is operating today are the gig economy, soft mobility, travel and PropTech. Thanks to the digitisation of the entire value chain, Qover is able to launch tailor-made and competitive products in less than a month. For this purpose, Qover teams up with top insurance companies in order to offer the best coverage on the market at the most attractive price for its partners. Qover is active in 11 countries and covers close to 100,000 people across Europe. Its long-standing partners include renowned companies such as Deliveroo, Wolt, Decathlon, Cowboy, Immoweb and many others.
Leavy.co allows for anyone to live wherever they like, no matter how much they make, even for a day.
Covid has turned our idea of work and travel upside down. It’s now all about mobility, for a generation who cannot afford it.
The platform pays cash to all members willing to share their homes with the community or care for others.
TerraPay, a mobile-first international payment network, has been founded with the vision to send money to any mobile. TerraPay interconnects financial services providers -- mobile wallet service providers, money transfer operators, banks and payment platforms – to create a “one network” for secure and seamless transnational movement of funds. The network facilitates a broad transaction set including interpersonal transfers, e-payments and government disbursements. TerraPay is platform agnostic and supports standard open APIs for integration with any mobile wallet provider. Through a single connection, partners gain access to a global payment network enabling rapid services up-scaling whilst minimizing Opex and Capex investments. As a fully regulated financial intermediary services network, TerraPay offers services beyond principal core transaction, routing and processing functions and assumes end-to-end responsibility for, regulatory compliance foreign exchange management and funds settlement.
CybelAngel is a cybersecurity startup detecting data-leaks where others don’t. The company finds data that has been stolen, or data that has been leaked by accident - generally by third-party partners and suppliers. Its solution scans the visible, deep and dark webs, but it is also the only one scanning the major source of negligent leaks: Connected Storage.
Its approach to data-leak detection combines Artificial Intelligence and human expertise. Smart algorithms ensure rapid and precise detection, while machine learning focuses alerts based on what is most important to their clients. And yet it’s not machines that put together your alerts - it’s people. Its cyber analysts compile a report for every incident, with all the information needed for a swift remediation.
Leavy.co allows for anyone to live wherever they like, no matter how much they make, even for a day.
Covid has turned our idea of work and travel upside down. It’s now all about mobility, for a generation who cannot afford it.
The platform pays cash to all members willing to share their homes with the community or care for others.
Blueground is a corporate hospitality company that specializes in leasing and managing residential properties across various locations, including Greece, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Kifisia, Greece, the company provides fully furnished and equipped apartments designed for corporate travelers, expatriates, and leisure visitors. Blueground aims to create a seamless living experience, allowing guests to move in effortlessly for short or long-term stays. With a growing portfolio of over 3,500 apartments in twelve cities, including New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, the company is focused on expanding its reach to 50 cities worldwide, ultimately increasing its offerings to more than 50,000 apartments.
Holidu GmbH is a rapidly growing travel technology company based in Munich, Germany, that specializes in vacation rentals. Founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers, Holidu operates a platform that allows users to compare vacation homes from numerous travel websites, including Airbnb and Booking.com. Utilizing proprietary image recognition technology, the platform enables efficient price comparison and user reviews, helping users find ideal accommodations while potentially saving up to 55% on their bookings. Holidu also offers a mobile application to enhance the user experience in searching and booking vacation rentals.
Recharge, based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, specializes in simplifying the process of prepaid credit and top-up services. The company aims to disrupt the traditional, often slow market by providing a fast, safe, and convenient online recharge experience for customers worldwide. With a focus on accessibility, Recharge seeks to offer its services anytime and anywhere, catering to a diverse range of users. The company is dedicated to expanding its presence in the online recharge sector and is actively seeking talented professionals to support its growth and innovation in this rapidly evolving industry.
Founded in 2016, Meero aims to revolutionize the world of photography by allowing photographers to dedicate themselves to their passion. From providing revenues and market research to invoicing, post-production, and delivery, Meero takes care of all the laborious, time-consuming tasks which plague the industry. Above all, the company aims to provide them with tools for file compatibility, CRM, marketing, and other daily needs. In addition to this, they'll have access to a series of educational masterclasses, inspiring documentaries, meetups with photographers in 35 different countries, a magazine in 2 different languages, and even a foundation supporting photography worldwide. Meero also solves a major problem in the world of photography: photo editing. Normally 60 minutes of actual shooting will take up to 4 hours of extra post-production work. The cutting-edge content enrichment technologies the company is currently developing can reduce this time to a few seconds, solving the problems of long delivery times, inconsistent photo rendering and unfair prices. Meero further gives artists the chance to work with major brands and take advantage of a whole range of solutions that simplify their work and make the production of beautiful images far easier. These innovations allow brands, and soon individual consumers, to access made-to-measure photo and video solutions around the world. Meero manages the photoshoot process from beginning to end, guaranteeing unbeatable prices, delivery times of less than 24 hours and professional photo quality. Today Meero is: - The world's leading on-demand photography platform - A suite of tools dedicated to photographers' activities; masterclasses, a magazine in four different languages, inspiring documentaries, a community of artists, and a foundation in support of photography - The leader in image-processing artificial intelligence - 60,000 photographers around the world - 800 team members of 49 different nationalities - 1 Photoshoot delivered every 25 seconds - 6 offices: Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Bangalore, Singapore
Pagantis has originated over €500 million in online consumer loans on its proprietary platform, which has been developed leveraging the company’s expertise in data science, technology, regulatory compliance, and finance. Our point of sale consumer finance platform for e-commerce (Paga+Tarde in Spain), allows consumers to pay for goods and services in monthly installments with a fully automated, paperless process and provides e-commerce merchants with a simple onboarding process to offer consumer credit in conjunction with e-commerce purchases.
Zappi helps global brands make faster and better decisions to drive business growth. They help global brands make faster and better decisions to drive business growth, shape new product development, and enhance their advertising and branding efforts. They assist them predicting success and disrupting their industries
Iwoca provides small business credit finance services in the United Kingdom. It offers finance for businesses for various purposes ranging from bridging short-term cashflow gaps to investing in stock opportunities. It serves retailers, restaurants, hotels, service providers, and more.
Christoph Rieche and James Dear founded iwoca on October 1, 2011. iwoca's headquarters is located in London in the United Kingdom.
AImotive Informatikai Kft. specializes in artificial intelligence-driven self-driving technology designed for human drivers. Founded in 2015 and based in Budapest, Hungary, the company leverages camera-based solutions that replicate human visual capabilities. AImotive offers a suite of products, including aiDrive, which provides global self-driving functionalities across various weather conditions, and aiSim, which enables developers to test self-driving software effectively. Additionally, their aiWare product consists of AI-optimized hardware that is scalable for both embedded solutions and data centers. By combining expertise in artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and 3D graphics, AImotive aims to support industry partners in achieving their autonomous driving objectives, fostering collaboration with its modular and hardware-agnostic solutions.
Tripaneer B.V., founded in 2012 and headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands, operates a travel platform that enables users to discover, compare, and book educational-themed travel experiences worldwide. The platform focuses on enriching individuals' lives through unique journeys that promote personal growth and happiness. Tripaneer offers a diverse range of experiences, including mindful yoga retreats, safaris, and surf camps, all organized by local experts. By facilitating access to these theme-based experiences, the company aims to create lasting memories for travelers while encouraging them to explore their abilities and interests.
Falcon.io offers a unified SaaS platform for social media listening, engaging, publishing and managing customer data. Falcon clients can explore the full potential of digital marketing by managing multiple customer touch points from one platform.The diverse and global client portfolio includes Carlsberg, Tiger, Columbia University, IWC Watches, Momondo, Coca-Cola and much more.
Zappi helps global brands make faster and better decisions to drive business growth. They help global brands make faster and better decisions to drive business growth, shape new product development, and enhance their advertising and branding efforts. They assist them predicting success and disrupting their industries
Iwoca provides small business credit finance services in the United Kingdom. It offers finance for businesses for various purposes ranging from bridging short-term cashflow gaps to investing in stock opportunities. It serves retailers, restaurants, hotels, service providers, and more.
Christoph Rieche and James Dear founded iwoca on October 1, 2011. iwoca's headquarters is located in London in the United Kingdom.
4C is building the leading self-service intelligence platform for marketers to drive business outcomes across closed ecosystems. Brands, agencies, and media owners around the world trust Scope by 4C™ to surface insights about their most valuable consumers and creatives, and activate them across channels and devices. With over $2 billion in annualized advertising spend running through Scope, 4C bridges linear television, streaming video, digital commerce, and social media. Founded in 2011 and based in Chicago, 4C has staff in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Singapore. Visit www.4Cinsights.com for more information.
SlimPay SA is a leading European provider of a smart recurring payment platform that specializes in subscription payments through direct debit and credit card processing. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Paris, with additional offices in Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid, London, and San Francisco, SlimPay offers solutions that help merchants onboard customers and enhance their revenue potential. Its key offerings include an embeddable payment iframe called Checkout, which integrates seamlessly into websites, and SOFORT, an online direct payment method that utilizes online banking without requiring registration. SlimPay's platform processes payments in both EURO and GBP, catering to various fixed and variable payment plans, and aims to maximize customer lifetime value for businesses across Europe.
Dealerdirect Global is an online automotive marketplace established in 2006 by Vincent Stevens and Niels Oude Luttikhuis, located in Overijssel. The platform facilitates the buying and selling of second-hand vehicles, including cars, motorcycles, and recreational vehicles. Users can search, view, and compare various models while filtering results based on criteria such as mileage, location, year, and lot number. Dealerdirect Global aims to simplify and enhance the transparency of vehicle transactions, allowing clients to engage in profitable dealings and participate in online auctions for vehicles.
Forcare B.V. is a Dutch software company providing software products and services for healthcare. Their focus is “interoperability” between healthcare IT systems. That is, they provide products and services to interconnect existing healthcare information systems to share and exchange patient data. Based on their solutions, a comprehensive and complete view of available patient information is realized.
Forcare’s vision is that clinical information systems need to cooperate in creating, sharing and managing clinical patient data, both inside and outside the healthcare enterprise. Based on this approach, healthcare institutions can share clinical information and realize more efficient and flexible cooperation. This enables healthcare professionals to provide high quality care in a more efficient way.
Falcon.io offers a unified SaaS platform for social media listening, engaging, publishing and managing customer data. Falcon clients can explore the full potential of digital marketing by managing multiple customer touch points from one platform.The diverse and global client portfolio includes Carlsberg, Tiger, Columbia University, IWC Watches, Momondo, Coca-Cola and much more.
Pagantis has originated over €500 million in online consumer loans on its proprietary platform, which has been developed leveraging the company’s expertise in data science, technology, regulatory compliance, and finance. Our point of sale consumer finance platform for e-commerce (Paga+Tarde in Spain), allows consumers to pay for goods and services in monthly installments with a fully automated, paperless process and provides e-commerce merchants with a simple onboarding process to offer consumer credit in conjunction with e-commerce purchases.
Bright Computing, Inc. develops and offers cluster management software that enables users to monitor and build clusters of different sizes. It provides comprehensive high-performance computing (HPC) and Hadoop clusters, OpenStack private clouds, and data centers provisioning and management software. The company also offers Bright Cluster Manager, a unified enterprise-grade data center and cloud systems provisioning, scheduling, monitoring, and management solution. Additionally, it provides support, training, certification, and consulting services. The company caters to academic, government, finance, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, oil, and gas industries. Its clientele include Boeing, NASA, Roche, Stanford University, and Tokyo Institute of Technology. The company has strategic partnerships with Amazon, Cisco, Cray, and Dell. Bright Computing, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
ZeroLight is an automotive visualisation specialist which empowers brands to redefine customer experience and media production through digitisation. Integrating cutting-edge technologies like #VR, #AR, 4K, the #cloud, and personalised media into one market-leading platform, ZeroLight delivers highly engaging and scalable deployments which are proven to drive both engagement and higher specification sales. Working alongside the biggest names in both automotive and tech, including Audi, Pagani, Porsche, VW, Toyota, Nissan, and more, ZeroLight has garnered recognition from several national and international awards houses.
Eutechnyx Limited is a driving game developer based in Gateshead, United Kingdom, with additional offices in the northeast of England and Hong Kong. Founded in 1987, the company focuses on creating and publishing titles and original intellectual properties for game consoles. Previously known as Merit Studios (Europe) Ltd., Eutechnyx has established itself as a notable player in the computer and video game industry.
Takeaway.com operates as an online food delivery marketplace primarily in Continental Europe and Israel. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Amsterdam, the company connects consumers with over 31,000 restaurants, offering a diverse range of food options. It collaborates mainly with restaurants that provide delivery services, while also offering its own delivery services in 23 European cities across five countries for establishments that do not deliver independently. Takeaway.com has established a significant presence in markets including the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, and Portugal, making it a prominent player in the food delivery industry.
Mendix Inc. is a low-code platform that facilitates application development for business and IT teams, allowing organizations to innovate and compete effectively. The platform offers a range of tools, including the Mendix Connector Kit for IoT data analysis, the Mendix Web Modeler for collaborative application building, the Mendix Application Test Suite for integrating testing into the development lifecycle, and the Mendix Application Performance Monitor for tracking application performance. This comprehensive approach supports the entire application lifecycle, from creation to deployment and iteration, using visual models that enable both developers and business analysts to participate in the process. Mendix serves various sectors, including insurance, finance, education, logistics, manufacturing, and the public sector. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Mendix also has offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Germany, and operates as a subsidiary of Siemens.
4C is building the leading self-service intelligence platform for marketers to drive business outcomes across closed ecosystems. Brands, agencies, and media owners around the world trust Scope by 4C™ to surface insights about their most valuable consumers and creatives, and activate them across channels and devices. With over $2 billion in annualized advertising spend running through Scope, 4C bridges linear television, streaming video, digital commerce, and social media. Founded in 2011 and based in Chicago, 4C has staff in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Singapore. Visit www.4Cinsights.com for more information.
AppLift GmbH is a mobile games marketing platform that connects game publishers and developers with traffic sources to enhance user acquisition. Founded in 2012 and based in Berlin, Germany, with additional offices in San Francisco, New York City, and Seoul, AppLift offers a suite of solutions for mobile performance marketing across iOS and Android platforms. Its services include customizable advertisement units such as PlayAds SDK for interactive ads, a mobile widget for monetizing web traffic, and APIs for seamless integration. The platform also caters to device manufacturers, mobile operators, and media publishing businesses, enabling them to optimize user engagement and lifetime value tracking. AppLift empowers advertisers with tools to programmatically manage their campaigns, target specific audiences, and drive user activation and retention, ultimately fostering customer growth in a mobile-first landscape. Since June 2019, it operates as a subsidiary of blockescence plc.
Eutechnyx Limited is a driving game developer based in Gateshead, United Kingdom, with additional offices in the northeast of England and Hong Kong. Founded in 1987, the company focuses on creating and publishing titles and original intellectual properties for game consoles. Previously known as Merit Studios (Europe) Ltd., Eutechnyx has established itself as a notable player in the computer and video game industry.
Markavıp is an exclusive, invitation-only online shopping community focused on the Middle Eastern market. The website specializes in offering flash sales to its customers.
Markavıp was founded by Ahmed Alkhatib, who previously spent 12 years in Silicon Valley working in the e-commerce industry. The website enjoys memberships from over 3 million exclusive members across eight Arabic speaking countries including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, and Oman.
Intrinsic ID B.V. specializes in digital authentication solutions, primarily for the Internet of Things (IoT) and embedded applications. The company is known for its SRAM Physical Unclonable Function (SRAM PUF) technology, which utilizes semiconductor manufacturing variations to create unique identifiers and keys for authenticating chips, data, devices, and systems. This approach allows for cost-effective implementation of authentication and key provisioning without the need for additional hardware. Intrinsic ID offers several key products, including Broadkey, Citadel, Quiddicard, and Quiddikey, which facilitate secure key management and anti-counterfeiting measures. The company's solutions are widely employed to validate payment systems, secure connectivity, authenticate sensors, and protect sensitive government and military data. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Intrinsic ID has garnered recognition for its innovative technology, including the EU 2016 Innovation Radar Prize. Its products have been validated in millions of devices and meet stringent certification standards.
Takeaway.com operates as an online food delivery marketplace primarily in Continental Europe and Israel. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Amsterdam, the company connects consumers with over 31,000 restaurants, offering a diverse range of food options. It collaborates mainly with restaurants that provide delivery services, while also offering its own delivery services in 23 European cities across five countries for establishments that do not deliver independently. Takeaway.com has established a significant presence in markets including the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, and Portugal, making it a prominent player in the food delivery industry.
Mendix Inc. is a low-code platform that facilitates application development for business and IT teams, allowing organizations to innovate and compete effectively. The platform offers a range of tools, including the Mendix Connector Kit for IoT data analysis, the Mendix Web Modeler for collaborative application building, the Mendix Application Test Suite for integrating testing into the development lifecycle, and the Mendix Application Performance Monitor for tracking application performance. This comprehensive approach supports the entire application lifecycle, from creation to deployment and iteration, using visual models that enable both developers and business analysts to participate in the process. Mendix serves various sectors, including insurance, finance, education, logistics, manufacturing, and the public sector. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Mendix also has offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Germany, and operates as a subsidiary of Siemens.
Eutechnyx Limited is a driving game developer based in Gateshead, United Kingdom, with additional offices in the northeast of England and Hong Kong. Founded in 1987, the company focuses on creating and publishing titles and original intellectual properties for game consoles. Previously known as Merit Studios (Europe) Ltd., Eutechnyx has established itself as a notable player in the computer and video game industry.
Service2Media BV designs, develops, and builds mobile solutions. The company builds mission critical mobile solutions for enterprises; and mobile consumer applications. It offers AppHaus that provides storage, organization, and distribution facilities for application build; Mobile News Outlook, a bi-monthly news services; and AppControl that enables users to control mobile consumer applications. The company also provides consulting services. It serves news, e-commerce, banking, government, entertainment, leisure, and retail sectors. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. As of February 19, 2016, Service2Media BV operates as a subsidiary of One Sixty B.V.
Cint, founded in 1998 in Stockholm, Sweden, operates as a global insight exchange that connects businesses with consumer data. The company maintains an online marketplace with 19 million registered consumers, enabling community owners to manage, monetize, and enhance their data. Cint specializes in providing software solutions that streamline the insights-gathering process for various clients, including research agencies and brands. Its platform allows these clients to access consumer insights efficiently and survey communities in real time, thereby delivering valuable information and audience scale. Through its innovative technology, Cint facilitates a more effective means of gathering and utilizing consumer insights in the digital landscape.
Palringo is a community messaging and gaming application available on iOS and Android, enabling users to connect, chat, and engage in gaming activities. Launched in 2006, the platform has attracted over 40 million users globally and features more than 350,000 user-created groups based on various interests, including gaming, entertainment, sports, travel, and technology. Users can participate in these large community groups, some accommodating up to 2,000 members. Additionally, Palringo offers a variety of games, enhancing the user experience through in-app purchases using Palringo Credits for virtual products like sticker packs and premium accounts. The company, headquartered in London with additional offices in Newcastle, Ipswich, Gothenburg, and Helsinki, has embraced the concept of 'Community Gaming' by integrating gaming capabilities into its messaging service, following acquisitions of game studios in 2014 and 2015. This approach allows for the development of both in-app and external games, fostering a vibrant community-oriented gaming environment.
Eutechnyx Limited is a driving game developer based in Gateshead, United Kingdom, with additional offices in the northeast of England and Hong Kong. Founded in 1987, the company focuses on creating and publishing titles and original intellectual properties for game consoles. Previously known as Merit Studios (Europe) Ltd., Eutechnyx has established itself as a notable player in the computer and video game industry.
Liquavista B.V., a display manufacturing company, develops electro-wetting displays in the Netherlands and internationally. It offers LiquavistaBright that offers a combination of brightness in natural light and bold contrast to video; LiquavistaColor, which enables eReader devices to offer bright, full color, and low power video capable displays; and LiquavistaVivid, a transflective mode display, which represents the eReader application. Its products are used in portable and mobile applications, such as phones, watches, cameras, DVD players, and automotive applications. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands with additional offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong.
Layar B.V. designs and develops mobile phone application. It offers Layar, a mobile augmented browser that provides information on top of the camera display view in various categories, including eating and drinking, entertainment and leisure, games, government, health care, local search and directory services, real estate, retail, schools and universities, social networks and communities, tourism, transportation, and weather. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Palringo is a community messaging and gaming application available on iOS and Android, enabling users to connect, chat, and engage in gaming activities. Launched in 2006, the platform has attracted over 40 million users globally and features more than 350,000 user-created groups based on various interests, including gaming, entertainment, sports, travel, and technology. Users can participate in these large community groups, some accommodating up to 2,000 members. Additionally, Palringo offers a variety of games, enhancing the user experience through in-app purchases using Palringo Credits for virtual products like sticker packs and premium accounts. The company, headquartered in London with additional offices in Newcastle, Ipswich, Gothenburg, and Helsinki, has embraced the concept of 'Community Gaming' by integrating gaming capabilities into its messaging service, following acquisitions of game studios in 2014 and 2015. This approach allows for the development of both in-app and external games, fostering a vibrant community-oriented gaming environment.
Civolution was formed in October 2008 as a spin-out of Royal Philips Electronics. Civolution is the leading provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetizing media content. The company offers an extensive portfolio of cutting edge watermarking and fingerprinting technology applications for audience measurement, media synchronization and forensic marking of media assets in pre-release, digital cinema, PayTV and online. Through its solutions portfolio Civolution offers the most comprehensive global media monitoring (television, internet, and radio) and online content identification and monetization to facilitate and manage profitable content distribution.
Liquavista B.V., a display manufacturing company, develops electro-wetting displays in the Netherlands and internationally. It offers LiquavistaBright that offers a combination of brightness in natural light and bold contrast to video; LiquavistaColor, which enables eReader devices to offer bright, full color, and low power video capable displays; and LiquavistaVivid, a transflective mode display, which represents the eReader application. Its products are used in portable and mobile applications, such as phones, watches, cameras, DVD players, and automotive applications. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands with additional offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong.
IPDiA S.A., established in 2009 and based in Caen, France, specializes in the manufacture of 3D silicon passive components, including submounts, RF devices, and capacitors. The company offers a diverse range of products, such as high stability silicon capacitors, integrated passive devices like filters and transformers, and customized solutions for various applications. IPDiA's products cater to industries such as broadband, medical, industrial sensors, and aerospace, aiming to replace traditional ceramic and tantalum capacitors with innovative solutions. The company also provides assembly services, design support, and foundry capabilities, leveraging over a decade of research and development in advanced technologies. With a focus on high brightness LEDs and integrated passive devices, IPDiA positions itself as a significant player in the global market, driven by a team with extensive experience in semiconductor innovation and manufacturing. As of 2016, IPDiA operates as a subsidiary of Murata Electronics Europe B.V.
Greetz BV is an online platform based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, specializing in personalized greeting cards and gifts. Founded in 2004, the company offers a variety of products, including flowers, chocolates, greeting cards, drinks, balloons, cakes, and other unique surprises such as beauty products and personalized items. Greetz provides an innovative service called MyGreetz, which includes an address book and calendar to help customers manage and send their cards and gifts efficiently. The platform allows users to create and customize their selections through a user-friendly application accessible via desktop, tablet, or mobile devices. Serving both private and commercial customers, Greetz has established itself as a market leader in the Netherlands and is actively pursuing international expansion. As of 2018, Greetz operates as a subsidiary of PhotoBox Limited.
SellaBand is based in Munich and Berlin, the creative capital of Europe. Since its launch in August 2006, SellaBand has coordinated recording sessions for more than 80 artists or acts who had their albums funded by their fans. Over $4,000,000 have been invested in independent bands via www.sellaband.com. With SellaBand, artists retain complete ownership of the works created and have the flexibility to determine which incentives they will offer their fans who fund them. SellaBand’s fan funding engine also allows artists the freedom to enter into deals with any label, management company, or publisher and there are no advances to pay back. Artists maintain control over their career and have 100% freedom to create the music that they want to create. SellaBand can also be utilized by management companies, record labels, publishers, sponsors and media companies to fund projects for their own artists while also building the core fan base required to launch an artist or take them to the next stage of their career.
eBuddy is a messaging solutions provider that offers web and mobile applications for users to communicate across various platforms. Founded in 2003, the company initially launched e-Messenger, the first independent web browser-based instant messaging service, and rebranded to eBuddy in 2006. Its flagship products include eBuddy Chat, which allows users with accounts from popular messaging services like Facebook Chat, MSN, and Google Talk to chat for free in a single interface, and XMS, a real-time messaging app for smartphones that enables unlimited messaging through internet connectivity. XMS, launched in 2011, is compatible with multiple smartphone operating systems, including iOS and Android. Headquartered in Amsterdam, eBuddy has additional offices in San Francisco and Singapore and is supported by investors such as Prime Technology Ventures and Lowland Capital Partners. The company has garnered significant user engagement, facilitating millions of global conversations monthly.
Palringo is a community messaging and gaming application available on iOS and Android, enabling users to connect, chat, and engage in gaming activities. Launched in 2006, the platform has attracted over 40 million users globally and features more than 350,000 user-created groups based on various interests, including gaming, entertainment, sports, travel, and technology. Users can participate in these large community groups, some accommodating up to 2,000 members. Additionally, Palringo offers a variety of games, enhancing the user experience through in-app purchases using Palringo Credits for virtual products like sticker packs and premium accounts. The company, headquartered in London with additional offices in Newcastle, Ipswich, Gothenburg, and Helsinki, has embraced the concept of 'Community Gaming' by integrating gaming capabilities into its messaging service, following acquisitions of game studios in 2014 and 2015. This approach allows for the development of both in-app and external games, fostering a vibrant community-oriented gaming environment.
Greetz BV is an online platform based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, specializing in personalized greeting cards and gifts. Founded in 2004, the company offers a variety of products, including flowers, chocolates, greeting cards, drinks, balloons, cakes, and other unique surprises such as beauty products and personalized items. Greetz provides an innovative service called MyGreetz, which includes an address book and calendar to help customers manage and send their cards and gifts efficiently. The platform allows users to create and customize their selections through a user-friendly application accessible via desktop, tablet, or mobile devices. Serving both private and commercial customers, Greetz has established itself as a market leader in the Netherlands and is actively pursuing international expansion. As of 2018, Greetz operates as a subsidiary of PhotoBox Limited.
Palringo is a community messaging and gaming application available on iOS and Android, enabling users to connect, chat, and engage in gaming activities. Launched in 2006, the platform has attracted over 40 million users globally and features more than 350,000 user-created groups based on various interests, including gaming, entertainment, sports, travel, and technology. Users can participate in these large community groups, some accommodating up to 2,000 members. Additionally, Palringo offers a variety of games, enhancing the user experience through in-app purchases using Palringo Credits for virtual products like sticker packs and premium accounts. The company, headquartered in London with additional offices in Newcastle, Ipswich, Gothenburg, and Helsinki, has embraced the concept of 'Community Gaming' by integrating gaming capabilities into its messaging service, following acquisitions of game studios in 2014 and 2015. This approach allows for the development of both in-app and external games, fostering a vibrant community-oriented gaming environment.
Codenomicon develops threat awareness and proactive security testing solutions. Its products include Defensics, a solution that discovers unknown vulnerabilities and flaws, AppCheck, a solution that catalogs, scans, and identifies various digital assets as well as identifies key vulnerabilities and outlines known corresponding fixes, and AbuseSA, a solution that provides governments, CERTs, and cyber authorities with threat intelligence. Codenomicon also offers testing and auditing services such as outsourced robustness testing, custom test development, security audit, vulnerability reporting, and advanced testing and auditing, training, and security and robustness verification services. It serves developers and security analysts in telecommunications, networking, manufacturing, financial services, and defense industries. Ari Takanen, Rauli Kaksonen, and Mikko Varpiola founded Codenomicon in 2001, with its headquarters in Oulu in Finland, with a branch in Saratoga in California in the United States. Codenomicon operates as a subsidiary of Synopsys as of June 29, 2015.
Spirea AB
Series B in 2002
Spirea AB is located at Kista, Sweden in the heart of the "wireless valley". Spirea is a dynamic, rapidly growing start-up in the Bluetooth personal connectivity market. The company designs and markets highly integrated, yet flexible, Bluetooth hardware and software wireless solutions and application-specific Bluetooth platforms. Their products are based on in-house developed IPs, primarily in low cost integrated circuit technologies, such as CMOS.
Q-go is a global leader in next generation online customer service, and offers online and mobile customer service solutions for the financial services, airlines and telecommunications industries. Q-go's SaaS-based solution is available in many languages, and is powered by comprehensive, industry-specific domain dictionaries, millions of customer interactions, and the most advanced semantic technology available. The software is available for websites, call centers, intranets, mobile, ATM and virtual assistants, and Q-go offers a guaranteed return on investment (ROI) within six months. Unlike typical search and knowledge-base technology, Q-go's application understands what customers are asking on your website, mobile and other channels, and allows your online customers to ask questions in their own words. It understands what your customers are asking, rapidly deciphers their question grammatically and semantically, and delivers the right answer, the first time. The result is the highest quality customer experience and service, an immediate and guaranteed reduction in costs, a significant increase in self-service penetration, online conversion and real-time customer insight. Q-go customers include leading financial institutions and other globally recognized brands including Air France-KLM, ING, ABN AMRO, BBVA, VISA, Deutsche Telekom, T-Systems, and Movistar. Founded in 1999, Q-go is headquartered in Amsterdam and has additional offices in Barcelona, Madrid, Bonn, Munich, Zürich, New York and San Francisco. Learn more at http://www.q-go.com.
YellowBrix got its start in late 1997 as NewsReal when a few key executives decided to spin off the Corporate Information Division of InfoSeek. But that’s only part of the story – Co-founders David Hoppmann and Jeff Massa met in 1993 and brought to the relationship two great assets — Jeff had extensive experience working with artificial intelligence and neural networking for the White House and David had leadership experience. Together, they saw that, while the Internet was becoming the world’s largest content provider, not everyone had the resources to create their own content. Together, their vision was to develop the potential of smart technology to provide news content and business information to Web sites and their users. The result was the creation of a content infrastructure services company with a top-notch executive team, powerhouse investors like CNNfn and the Walt Disney Company, and top-of-the-line technology. As the company grew and developed more applications for their Intelligence Engine, they outgrew the name NewsReal. In February of 2000, the name was changed to YellowBrix to reflect the optimism and possibilities of the Internet.